Training Faculty
Dale Sengelaub Director
Departments: Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Hormonal control of development and plasticity in sexually dimorphic neural systems; hormones as neurotherapeutic or neuroprotective agents
Laura Hurley Associate Director
Departments: Biology, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Context-dependence of male and female vocal signals during courtship; sex differences in sensory neuromodulation
Jeffrey Alberts
Departments: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Perinatal behavior and physiology; parental behavior; development of sociality
Jennifer Barber
Departments: Sociology, The Kinsey Institute
Research Interests: The interplay between intimate relationships, attitudes/values/beliefs, and processes related to pregnancy (sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and pregnancy desires)
Lynda Delph
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics and ecology; plant reproductive biology
Gregory Demas
Departments: Biology, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Neuroendocrine-immune interactions; social behaviors; sickness behaviors; reproductive-immune trade-offs
Justin Garcia
Departments: Gender Studies, The Kinsey Institute
Research Interests: Intersections of biology and gender; social and sexual monogamy; human sexual behavior; human reproductive strategies and sexual behavior
Matthew Hahn
Departments: Biology, Informatics
Research Interests: Evolution of sex chromosomes; genomics and transcriptomics
Debby Herbenick
Departments: Applied Health Science
Research Interests: Human sexuality, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections
Ellen Ketterson
Departments: Biology, Neuroscience, Gender Studies
Research Interests: Hormones and reproductive behavior; sex and gender in animals, seasonal development of reproduction, evolution and ecology
Curtis Lively
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Evolution of sex; host-parasite interactions
Armin Moczek
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Development and evolution of novel, complex traits; causes, mechanisms, and consequences of sex- and environment-sensitive development and behavior
Leonie Moyle
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Genetics of speciation and adaptation; comparative genomics; evolutionary ecology; plant reproduction
Ken Nephew
Departments: Medical Sciences
Research Interests: Cancer epigenetics (DNA methylation and histone modifications); nuclear receptors and steroid hormone action; translational research in ovarian and breast cancer
Irene Newton
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Functional and evolutionary genomics of symbiosis
Erik Ragsdale
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Genetic regulation and evolution of developmental plasticity
Kim Rosvall
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology of sex differences in reproductive and social behavior; neuroendocrine and genomic mechanisms of sex differences
Troy Smith
Departments: Biology, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Evolution and neuroendocrine regulation of sex differences in communication and reproductive social behavior
Peter Todd
Departments: Cognitive Sciences, Informatics, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Effect of cognitive mechanisms, social environment, and sex differences on human mate choice
Cara Wellman
Departments: Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Sex differences and stress effects on structure and function of neural circuits underlying emotion regulation; transgenic models of psychopathology
Affiliated Faculty
Natasha Chaku
Departments: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Cognitive development in adolescence, its correlates, and the implications of its development for different populations, especially as related to puberty, psychopathology, and positive development.
Cris Ledon-Rettig
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: How do environmental and endogenous signals interact to generate phenotypic variation in physiologies and behaviors? What are the ecological and evolutionary consequences of such variation?
Gregory Lewis
Departments: Intelligent Systems Engineering, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Research Interests: Bioengineering techniques to the collection and analysis of human physiological signals
Departments: Anthropology, Human Biology
Research Interests: Ecological and evolutionary relationships between wild primates and their estrogenic plant foods, with relevance to understanding the roles of endocrine disruptors in primate conservation, human evolution, and modern human health and diet
Lesley Weaver
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Physiological control of reproduction through inter-organ communication
Emeritus Faculty
Peter Cherbas
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Drosophila Drosophila development and genomics; nuclear receptors for steroid hormones and other transcription factors
John Foley
Departments: Medical Sciences
Research Interests: Developmental cell biology; sexual dimorphism; nipple, nursing/lactation; sex hormone responsiveness
Julia Heiman
Departments: The Kinsey Institute, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Human sexual response; partner selection and health outcomes; neuroendocrine-behavior interactions in human sexuality
Milos Novotny
Departments: Chemistry
Research Interests: Mammalian pheromones; olfaction; sexual dimorphism
Michael Wade
Departments: Biology
Research Interests: Evolution of sexual dimorphism, sex chromosomes and maternal effects; appearance of imprinting or parent-of-origin effects with maternal dominance; inbreeding and sexual conflict; sexual and genomic conflict
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